Overview

• She died at 91 while traveling to give lectures, prompting mourning across the world.
• Prince William praised her curiosity and compassion in a message on X, while Prince Harry lauded her as a visionary and friend of the planet.
• Her Gombe fieldwork established that chimpanzees use tools, including the famed termite‑fishing observation.
• She documented empathy, grief, and complex social structures in chimpanzees, challenging long‑held assumptions about animal minds.
• She founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 and created Roots & Shoots, now active in about 75 countries, as she warned that wild chimpanzee populations are declining.